Best Del Toro movie? Probably

Rating: 6/10 (2 September 2013)

This is one of those movies where the trailer did not do any justice, lets face it, the first thing you thought of when the trailer played was "Transformers vs. Godzilla with a storyline as appealing as battle L.A"
Good: Del Toro did a great job on making the robots and monsters in this movie feel enormous, every second they are on screen it feels like building tall warriors are throwing down. The action in this movie is mindblowing; it's not like Transformers where explosions and throw downs are right infront of you face with a mixture of smoke and shaky cam and you don't even know if a good guy or a bad guy just blew up(but comparing this movie to transformers is like comparing the twilight saga to blade because there are vampires in it). But the action feels enormous, the mechs move all slow and they punch slowly because they're gigantic. The plot in this movie is surprisingly good. It's in depth, it explains everything without spoon-feeding the viewer. The acting in this movie was also surprisingly good every actor looked like they had fun in this movie. The Bad: the reason I said the acting was surprisingly good was because if George Lucas has taught us anything it's that cheesy dialog and too much time in a green room can lead to bad acting. Don't get me mistaken, the dialog in this movie is no where near as cheesy as the Shakespearean crap Lucas shoved down our throats in the Star Wars Prequels, but there were still some lines where I just thought "ok that sounded pretty dumb". Dialog aside you just don't care about the characters problems, Del Toro tried to relate the two main characters by giving them a broken past and making them have reasons to want to smash Godzilla's face in. Now I don't mind character development one bit, but I just did not care the least bit for the characters problems. There were also quite a few useless characters. There were three characters that of the movie didn't have it would have been no different. All in all this movie is a great time, with good acting, a compelling storyline, some cheesy dialog and pointless characters, and mindblowing action. You won't regret seeing this 'movie it's pretty awesome.